Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, for all its crisis of government itself, industrial production has doubled since 1938. Citroen is 18 months behind the demand in production of its sleek new DS-igs; vacation resorts are booked solidly for July and August-not only with foreign tourists but with Frenchmen. In all France, though there are many poor, only 82,000 are unemployed. Every weekend restaurants and hotel dining rooms in provincial towns are crowded with whole French families eating a meal priced at no less than $3 a place...
...Meyer-Drake Offenhauser that powered every car in the race except the two V-8 Novi Specials.) Under the Belond's yellow skin, the time-tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile that rose only 22 inches off the track at the snout. It looked strange, but it was sweet to handle; the off-center weight of the tilted Offy made it cat-quick on the corners. Next year almost every other racer at Indianapolis will probably copy its style...
...What You Can. While its satellites go their way, the foundation goes about its own business of dispensing millions from its hushed, grey-carpeted headquarters in a sleek new office building on Madison Avenue. There a staff of 20 educators, 17 former government workers, twelve former businessmen, eight journalists and two lawyers pore over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked...
F.D.R. on the Lupercal. Author de Riencourt adopts these arbitrary terms to pose an equally arbitrary theorem: Greek culture was to Roman civilization what European culture is to the coming American civilization. U.S. bread and circuses -"Hollywood's sleek motion pictures, American newspapers and magazines, soft drinks, dentistry"-already dominate Europe. He cites a ream of historical parallels that do not prove the theory but endlessly restate it. American readers are used by now to the pat European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion...
...weeks a sleek, needle-nosed model of the Matador guided missile has stood on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's desk in Taipei. He genially parried questions about it. So did Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll, chief of the U.S. Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Command, who also had a Matador model on his desk. Last week Chiang stopped his parrying and explained: Formosa's defenses now include a Matador missile squadron, the first in the Far East...